The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 1870 for industrialist Lucius Knowles, best known for his innovations in the manufacture of looms.

Another entry on the south side also had a decorated porch, now glassed in, above which there is an oriel window.

A unique music room was added to the northeast corner of the house around 1880, to a design by Stephen Earle, which featured stained glass skylights (now covered over but still in place).

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.

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